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Posted by u/bakigul 18 hours ago
Twitter(X) Is Down
https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
alyxya · 17 hours ago
I read that they only have 30 people maintaining the whole app. It must be difficult holding everything together with so few people, and probably insufficient redundancy with oncall.
DustinEchoes · 17 hours ago
Yes, the head of product dev recently bragged about only having 30 engineers.
renegade-otter · 15 hours ago
From what I understand, they effectively rewrote all Scala/JVM/Python services to go through the xAI engine for their feed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8JOlCvA4Qs

I am not sure how that works at scale or how much money that burns, OR if this is even true, but a Rust monolith of this kind, where everything is a Black Box, could very will be maintained by 30 people.

That said, X is a complete dumpster fire where I want to pour Clorox into my eyes after 30 seconds.

I miss being plugged into a 24/7 feed of professional reporters, and at the same time - thank you, Elon, for fixing my addiction.

small_model · 17 hours ago
How may does GitHub have? its down far more than x.com
willquack · 17 hours ago
Why is there an expectation for social media services to have such high uptime? It's not an ISP or cloud provider, why does it matter if it goes down occasionally?
xp84 · 5 hours ago
Yes, I think we’d all benefit from that perspective. Of course, the revenue implications for the ownership of one of these pointless brain rot factories being down for a half hour are enormous. That’s a little notable but only for their shareholders.
codingdave · 15 hours ago
In my mind, it isn't about any specific expectation. Events like this are interesting because the cracks are starting to show when a company follows the "fire as many people as possible, run lean, integrate AI" strategy. The trend I'm seeing is that downtimes are becoming more common, which in turn does not speak well to that strategy.
fogzen · 13 hours ago
Because many people (including high profile CEOs and VCs) are social media and X addicts. They spend literally all waking hours interacting with it.
meetpateltech · 17 hours ago
Can confirm.

DownDetector showing widespread reports: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

rsynnott · 17 hours ago
Yes, why not go live in this guy's moon city, what could go wrong.
jgoewert · 16 hours ago
Hey, the uptime for oxygen is 99.9% this month

Why are you complaining about the half hour of no air? Did you suffer some sort of brain damage? (<-- that's the joke. look up "hypoxia" if you didn't get it. Oh, and try not to get hypoxia.)

kidmin · 18 hours ago
Web/App aren't working. Updog also shows it's down. https://updog.ai/status/twitter
martibravo · 17 hours ago
What's UpDog?
jandragsbaek · 18 hours ago
oh, didn't know about Updog. Thanks for linking it - i need this in my life.
Muaz_Ashraf · 13 hours ago
Yes I was checking my tweets and suddenly it was down also in Youtube no video was playing.
angoragoats · 17 hours ago
Nice. I hope it stays down; we’d all be better off.
alecsm · 17 hours ago
Speak for yourself.

I like it and I don't use it at all for politics.

mcast · 17 hours ago
Selecting your own mute words for your timeline is the best part about Twitter. The algorithm changes have been pretty bad in the last few weeks though.
small_model · 17 hours ago
Down for me, cant login, UK